The Sabbath

Genesis 2:1,2,3 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and    
all the host of them.
 
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made;and    
he rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
 
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that    
in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
 
Exodus 12:15,16 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread: even the    
first day  ye  shall put away leaven out of your houses: for    
whosoever eateth  leavened  bread from the first  day until the    
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
 
Exodus 16:28,29,30 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse    
ye to keep my commandments and my law?
 
See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore He    
giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every    
man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the  seventh    
day.
 
So the people rested on the seventh day.
 
Exodus 20:8,9,10 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
 
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
 
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it    
thou shalt not do any work,  thou, nor thy son, nor thy daugther,    
thy  manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy    
stranger than is within thy gates:
 
Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth,  the    
sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:    
wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
 
Exodus 23:10,11 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt    
gather in the fruits thereof:
 
But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that    
the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of    
the  field  shall eat.  In like manner thou shalt deal with thy    
vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
 
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou 
shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son 
of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
 
Exodus 31:13,14,15 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel,    
saying, Verily My sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign 
between Me and you throughout your generations;  that ye may 
know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you:    
every one  that defileth it shall surely be put to  death: for    
whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from    
among his people.
 
Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of    
rest, holy to the Lord:  whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath    
day, he shall surely be put to death.
 
Exodus  31:16,17 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the    
sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for    
a perpetual covenant.
 
It is a sign between my and the children of Israel for ever: for    
in  six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh    
day He reeastssted, and was refreshed.
 
Exodus  34:21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the  seventh day    
thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
 
Exodus 35:2,3 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day    
there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord:    
whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
 
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the    
sabbath day.
 
Leviticus 19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father,    
and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord you God.
 
Leviticus 19:30  Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my    
sanctuary: I am the Lord.
 
Leviticus  23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day    
is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work    
therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
 
Leviticus 26:1,2,3 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, 
neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow 
down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the 
Lord.

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Leviticus 26:4,5,6 Then I will give you rain in due season, and 
the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field 
shall yield their fruit.

And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage 
shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to 
the full, and dwell in your land safely.

And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none 
shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, 
neither shall the sword go through the land.

Leviticus 26:7,8,9 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall 
fall before you by the sword.

And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you 
shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall 
before you by the sword.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and 
multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Leviticus 26:10,11,12 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth 
the old because of the new.

And I will set my tabernacle aong you: and my soul shall not 
abhor you.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be 
my people.

Leviticus 26:13 I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth 
out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondment; 
and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
 
Numbers 15:31,32 Because he hath despised the word of the Lord,    
and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut    
off; his iniquity hall be upon him.
 
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they    
found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
 
Numbers 15:33,34,35 And  they that found him  gathering  
sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all 
the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it 
was not declared what should be done to him.
 
And  the  Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely 
put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with 
stones without the camp.
 
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, 
and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord 
commanded Moses.
 
Numbers 15:35 And the congregation brought him without 
the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as 
the Lord commanded Moses.
 
Deuteronomy 5:12,13,14 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify 
it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
 
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
 
But the  seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: 
in it thou shalt not do any work,  thou, nor thy son, 
nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, 
nor thine ox, nor thine ass,  nor any of thy cattle,  nor 
thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant 
and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
 
Deuteronomy 5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in 
the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought  
out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out 
arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep 
the sabbath day.
 
II Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I build an house to the name 
of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to Him, and to burn 
before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, 
and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the 
sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feats 
of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to 
Israel. 
 
Nehemiah 13:15,16,17 In those days saw I in Judah some 
treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in 
sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, 
and all manner of burdens, which they brought into 
Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against 
them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
 
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein which brought fish, 
and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the 
children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
 
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto 
them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the 
sabbath day?
 
Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our 
God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet 
ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
 
Psalm 42:4,5 When I remember these things, I pour out my 
soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with 
them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, 
with a multitude that kept holy day.
 
Why art thou cast down, o my soul? and why art thou 
disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet
praise Him for the help of His countenance.
 
Isaiah 56:1,2,3 Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and 
do justice: for My salvation is near to come, and My 
righteousness to be revealed.

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that 
hold to it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and 
keepeth his hand from doing evil.   

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself
to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated
me from His people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold I am
a dry tree.
 
Isaiah 56:4,5,6 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that    
keep My sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and 
take hold of My covenant;
 
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a    
place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will    
give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
 
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the 
Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be 
His servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from 
polluting it, and taketh hold of My covenant;
 
Isaiah 56:7,8 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and 
make them  joyful in My house of prayer; their burnt offerings 
and their sacrifices  shall be accepted upon Mine altar; for 
Mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

The Lord God, which gathereth the outcasts of israel saith, 
Yet will I gather the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I 
gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
 
Isaiah 58:13,14 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, 
from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the sabbath 
a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt 
honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own 
pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
 
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause    
thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee    
with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord    
hath spoken it.

Isaiah 66:23,24 And it shall come to pass, that from one new 
moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all 
flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men
that have transgressed against Me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an
abhorring unto all flesh.

Jeremiah 17:21 Thus saith the Lord; Take heed to yourselves, and    
to bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the    
gates of Jerusalem;
 
Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath    
day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as 
I commanded your fathers.
 
Jeremiah 17:21,22 Thus saith the Lord; Take heed to yourselves,    
and bear no burden on the sabbath, nor bring it in by the gates    
of Jerusalem;     
  
Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath    
day, neithel do ye any work, hallow ye the sabbath day, as I   
commanded your fathers,

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their eear, but made their 
neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

Jeremiah 17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye dilligently    
hearken unto me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burden through    
the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the 
sabbath day, to do no work therein;
 
Jeremiah 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the    
sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the    
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire    
in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of    
Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
 
Lamentations 1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her   
affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she    
had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the    
enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did    
mock at her sabbaths.
 
Ezekiel 20:12,13 Moreover also I gave them My sabbaths, to be a    
sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord    
that sanctify them.
 
But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness:    
they walked not in My statutes, and they despised by judgments,    
which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths    
they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury 
upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
 
Ezekiel 20:15,16 Yet I lifted up my hand unto them in the    
wilderness, that Iwould not bring them into the land which I had    
given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of    
all lands;
 
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes,    
but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
 
Ezekiel 20:19,20 I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and    
keep my judgments, and do them;
 
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and    
you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
 
Ezekiel 20:23,24 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the    
wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and    
disperse them through the countries;
 
Because they had not executed by judgments, but had despised my    
statutes, and had polluted My sabbaths, and their eyes were after    
their fathers' idols.
 
Ezekiel 22:8 thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast    
profaned my sabbaths.
 
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned    
mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy    
and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the    
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths,    
and I am profaned among them.
 
Ezekiel 23:37,38 That they have committed adultery, and blood is    
in their hands, and with their idols have they committed    
adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto    
me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
 
Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my    
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
 
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then 
they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and,
lo,thus they have done in the midst of my house.
 
Ezekiel 44:24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment;    
and they shall judge it according to My judgments: and they 
shall keep My laws and My statutes in all mine assemblies; and 
they shall hallow My sabbaths.
 
Ezekiel 45:1· And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt    
offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the    
feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all    
solemnities of the house of Israel: and the meat offering 
and the burnt offering, an the peace offerings, to make 
reconciliation for the house of Israel.

Isaiah 56:3,4,5 Neither let the son of the stranger that hath 
joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, THe Lord hath 
utterly separated me from His people: neither let the eunuch 
say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep My sabbaths, 
and choose the things that please Me, and take hold of My 
covenant:

Even unto them will I give in Mine house and within My walls 
a place and a name better than sons and daughters: I will 
give them an everlasting name; that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 56:6,7,8 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves 
to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the Name of the Lord, to be 
His servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, 
and taketh hold of My covenant:

Even them will I bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in 
My house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall 
be accepted upon Mine altar; for Mine house shall be called a house 
of prayer for all people.

The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will 
I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
 
Matthew 6:16,17,18 Moreover when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, 
of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they 
may appear unto men to fast.  Verily I say unto you, They have 
their reward.
 
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy    
face.
 
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which    
is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward    
thee openly.
 
Matthew 12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep?    
Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
 
Mark 2:27,28 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man,    
and not man for the sabath:
 
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
 
Mark 3:4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the
sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill?  But they
held their peace.

Luke 23:54,55,56  And that day was preparation, and the sabbath    
drew on.
 
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed    
after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and 
rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
 
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jersualem, and their rulers,    
because they knew Him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets    
which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in    
condemning him.
 
Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and    
persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. 
 
Colossians 2:16,17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat,or in    
drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or 
of the sabbath days:
 
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body of    
Christ.

10/26/08